Bill Hybels Prayer Quotations

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

God wants us...to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.